What scares you the most in life?

I would have to say that I qualify as a person that has the fear that is discribed best as lyssophobia. My greatest fear in life is going insane. When I worked as a business/political advisor, my brain was my greatest asset.

I did not need brawn. I did not need agility. I needed to think quick and react to any situation that popped up.As a writer, I have to think clearly and logically to make sure that people at least have a chance of following the train of thought that I am typing up for them.

I have to be able to be creative, reactionary, and specific - all things that a well-trained brain can deal with. As a person, I am considered by many as being one of the most logical people that they know. Some people point out how I can quickly think of multiple different angles that they had not explored even to problems that just came up.

Granted, my former work cultivated this, but it is still an important aspect of my life. Not having this would be devastating to me. When I was in college, I found that I was drawn to a certian writer that I had never heard of before.

While he was not the best writer ever, H.P. Lovecraft spoke directly to a fear that I had for my entire life. He spoke to lyssophobia, the fear of going insane. Over the years, I have read his work (and that of the Cthulhu Mythos), studied it, and lectured on it.

The fact that his character usually battle with insanity is a factor that make me relate to, and feel afraid whenever I read it. Being at the mercy of others scares me to no end. I have always supported myself, and gotten by on my own brainpower.

Not having that would literally kill the person inside that makes me - me. If I went insane for any rason, I would become a warrant of the state, and I would lose - me. I have long said that I wish that I could place a statement in my will that would allow me to be shot if I ever go insane, or lose my mental facalties for any reason.

Due to certain regulations placed by the government, I can not put a clause in my will that would cause me physical harm. All I can do is pray that I die the day before I go insane.

I am terrified of not being in control. Any scenario where I lose the control I had or expected to have is terrifying. Every single activity form the most inane to the most uniquely complex can be anything from spooky boo boo scary to heart stoppingly axe to the face horrifying to me if I am not in the expected amount of control and the more control the better.

The more control I have the less fear I experience and that ratio is 1 unit to 1 unit inversely proportional absolutely. And worse that not being in control? The moments right before an unavoidable situation approaches me in which I know in advance that I will not have any or very little control of what happens.

That is real anticipation terror to me. What can I say? Character flaw.

I think that fear is caused by the unknown, people are afraid of the dark because they don't know what lurks inside of it. Ghosts, we don't know anything about the other side except from religious views, the think that scares people are not knowing things, about anything, test grades, callbacks, interviews. Life is full of unknown things, and when you don't know something important you get nervous and scared.

I fear that something terrible will happen to my wife and/or children, something that I will not be able to prevent. I fear that if they were to die, I would lose all desire to live and would just find a place to sit quietly until I followed them. Other than that, there is nothing that really frightens me.

I've been through many difficult and scary situations and I've found that I don't frighten easily. This one scenario frightens me to the point that were it to actually happen, my fear would quite possibly paralyze.

With undergoing recent health problems, I have been most scared of physically suffering with being sick. I have lost 35 pound now and continue to lose weight. The doctors have not been able to come up with a reason yet.

They do not seem to know what is going on. Two of my glands swell up like a balloon and I can not really swallow. I am tired and weak and ache, perhaps from not being able to eat well.It is by far the scariest situation I have been through yet.

All I want is an answer and treatment and to be back up on my feet again. I am not scared of death or dying, I am just scared of suffering.IN fact, I have said several times, I want to die like my great grandma, peacefully in my sleep. I am sure I have better days ahead and a solution to my problem will be found, but this certainly has been a wake up call to what is important to me in my life.

Nothing seems to matter to me except feeling well.

My greatest fear is losing my spirituality and dignity. Without these, I am not an efficient partner, friend, mother, or human. It is important that all people have self value.

Losing my family: As a child of eight, my best friend, and my dad left at the same time, and I started to be bullied by my supposed friends. I felt like I had no one. When I eventually got back my family and my confidence, I started to worry about losing my family again... Eating goat cheese: With goat cheese, and all goat products, I am highly allergic, and I could DIE it I eat any more.

Hope these help.

A "Risk" not taken, a "Challenge" backed down from,a "Leap of Faith" that was avoided, and a "Cry for Help" that fell on death ears, is what scares me the most. Thus it is best to live by the old but true phrase, "Carpe Diem". In other words, get busy living or get busy dying.

A suicide bomber, I cannot think of something more difficult to both detect and stop. It is beyond my imagination how someone could do such a thing. I cannot consider them to be either sane or human, so their brain has been altered, either on it's own or intentionally harmed.It scares me more than anything.

For me I fear that I will not live my life to it's full potential. There are so many things I want to accomplish in my life and I'm not referring to obtaining that perfect job with the big pay raise or losing X number of pounds or such. I'm talking about not being able to do all that God has entrusted me with in my life.

Perhaps I won't have time to show kindness to all those I want or I won't help all the people in my path that I could or perhaps I won't be able to paint all the paintings or write all the poems God wants me to do. Sometimes I think that's why I don't sleep well for days and nights... because I'm afraid I'm going to miss something. I won't see that particular sunrise or that particular falling star.

I realize I can't see or do everything there is in this world but since my surgery that nearly paralyzed me last year I just don't seem to have enough hours in any given day and night to cram all of my life into.

My greatest fear in life is losing someone or something I love. I'm not afraid of ghosts, yes little afraid of insects like roaches or spiders, but I'm not scared of my own death. What I don't like to experience is being left by someone dear to me.

I'm afraid of the pain that the experience will bring to me and I just can't imagine that there's this special person that I won't be seeing/talking to ever again. I lost some pets over the years, my favorite pet cat also passed away just few months ago and it already hurts like hell. So I can't imagine how painful it would be and I wish I would not feel that one yet.

I know impossible cause life's short, but not now... maybe years later when I'm a little stronger.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.